History

The Permanent Mission of the USSR
to the United Nations in New York
was established after the foundation of the UN under
the UN Charter signed on 26 June 1945 at the conference in San-Francisco, which
came into force on 24 October 1945. The location and deployment of the
Permanent Mission was related to solving and agreeing upon the more general
question of the UN Headquarters location.
The decision to choose the USA as a host country for the United Nations
was taken by the Preparatory Commission as early as on 15 December 1945,
however, the question was still discussed during 1946, and the Headquarters
Agreement between the United Nations and the United States of America was only
signed on 26 June 1947 to come into force on 21 November 1947.

General provisions on the immunities for representatives of the
Organization’s Member States in UN main and subsidiary bodies were laid down in
the Convention on Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations adopted by
the UN General Assembly on 13 February 1946.

In April 1945 the staff for the Permanent Mission was approved by the
Decree of the USSR Council of Ministers. The Mission, among its tasks, was to actively
participate in activities of principal and specialized organizations of the UN
system.

The status of the Permanent Mission of the USSR to the United Nations was also
defined under a resolution of the UN General Assembly of 3 December 1948 on
permanent representations to the United Nations, which defined the procedure
for appointing permanent representatives and the issue of their powers.

Since 1991, after the disintegration
of the USSR, Russian Federation, along with other former
republics of the Soviet Union is represented at the UN as an independent state
and operates under the "Provisions on the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation
to international organizations", approved on 29 September 1999 by a
Presidential Decree.

In December 1991,
the Russian Federation, as
the continuator state of the Soviet Union in the
international arena, has officially taken its place as a permanent member of
the UN Security Council.

Permanent Representatives of
the USSR and the Russian Federation
to the UN

Andrey Gromyko

(1909-1989)

in diplomatic service since 1938

1939 - Head of the Section of
American States in the USSR People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs

end of 1939 - Counsellor at the Plenipotentiary Mission (Embassy since
1941) of the USSR in the USA

1943-1946 - Ambassador of the USSR
to the United States sharing
the office of Envoy of the USSR
to the Republic
of Cuba

1946-1948 - Permanent Representative of the USSR
to the UN sharing the office of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR

1948-1949 - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR

1949-1952 - First Deputy Minister of
Foreign Affairs of the USSR

Starting June 1952 - Ambassador of
the USSR to Great Britain

1953-1957 - First Deputy Minister of
Foreign Affairs of the USSR

1957-1985 - Minister of Foreign
Affairs of the USSR

starting March 1983 - sharing the office of Deputy Chairman of the
USSR Council of Ministers

1985-1988 - Chairman of the Presidium
of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR

Yakov Malik

(1906-1980)

Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary

in diplomatic service since 1937

1937-1939 - worked in Moscow at the USSR
People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs

1939-1942 - Counselor at the Plenipotentiary
Mission (Embassy since 1941) of the USSR in Japan

1942-1945 - Ambassador of the USSR to Japan

1945-1946 - Political Advisor at the
Allied Council for Japan

1946-1953 - Deputy Minister of
Foreign Affairs of the USSR

1948-1952 - Permanent Representative
of the USSR to the UN and USSR
Representative to the UN Security Council

1953-1960 - Ambassador of the USSR to Great Britain

1960-1980 - Deputy Minister of
Foreign Affairs of the USSR,
in 1967 1976 sharing the office of Permanent Representative of the USSR to the UN and USSR Representative

to the UN Security Council

Valerian Zorin

(1902-1986)

in diplomatic service since 1941

1941-1943 - worked in Moscow at the USSR People’s Commissariat for
Foreign Affairs

1943-1945 - Head of the Fourth European Section
of the USSR People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs

1945-1947 - Ambassador of the USSR to Czechoslovakia

1947-1955 - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
of the USSR

1952-1953 - Permanent Representative of the USSR
to the UN Security Council

1955-1956 - Ambassador of the USSR to the FederalRepublic of Germany

1956-1960 - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
of the USSR

1960-1963 - Permanent Representative of the USSR to the UN and USSR Representative to the UN
Security Council

1963-1965 - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
of the USSR

1965-1971 - Ambassador of the USSR to France

1971-1986 - Ambassador-at-Large at the USSR
Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Andrey Vyshinsky

(1883-1954)

in diplomatic service since 1940

1940-1946 - First Deputy People’s Commissar for
Foreign Affairs of the USSR

1946-1949 - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
of the USSR

1949-1953 - Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR

1953-1954 - First Deputy Minister of Foreign
Affairs of the USSR and
Permanent Representative of the USSR
to the UN

Arkadiy Sobolev

(1903-1964)

in diplomatic service since 1939

1939-1942 - Secretary General of the USSR
People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs

1942-1945 - Counsellor at the Embassy of the USSR in Great Britain

1946-1949 - Assistant Secretary General of the
United Nations, Head of the Department of Political Affairs / Security Council
Affairs

1949-1950 - Head of the UN Section at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, member of the Ministry Board

1950-1951 - Head of the USA Section at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of the USSR

1951-1953 - Ambassador of the USSR to Poland

1953-1954 - Head of the Section of American
States at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR

1954-1955 - Deputy Permanent Representative of
the USSR
to the UN

1955-1960 - Permanent Representative of the USSR to the UN and USSR Representative to the UN
Security Council

1960-1964 - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
of the USSR

Nikolai Fedorenko

(1912-2000)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

in diplomatic service since 1939

1939-1941 - interpreter at the
Embassy of the USSR in China

1941-1948 - Third Secretary, Second
Secretary, First Secretary and then Counsellor at the Embassy of the USSR in China

1948-1949 - Acting Head of the
First Far Eastern Section of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1950-1952 - Counsellor at the
Embassy of the USSR in the
People’s Republic of China

1952 - Acting Head of the First Far
Eastern Section of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1952-1953 - Head of the First Far
Eastern Section of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1953-1955 - Head of the Far Eastern
Section of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1955-1958 - Deputy Minister of
Foreign Affairs of the USSR

1958-1962 - Ambassador of the USSR to Japan

1962-1967 - Permanent
Representative of the USSR
to the UN and USSR
Representative to the UN Security Council

1968 - left the Ministry to take up
scientific work at the Academy
of Sciences

Oleg Troyanovsky

(1919-2003)

Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary

in diplomatic service since 1944

1944-1947 - Attaché and
then Third Secretary at the Embassy of the USSR
in Great Britain

1947-1951 - worked in Moscow at the USSR
Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1951-1953 - Head of a
section at the ‘Novosti’ magazine editors office

1953-1958 - Assistant
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR

1958-1967 - Assistant Chairman
of the USSR
Council of Ministers

1967-1976 - Ambassador
of the USSR to Japan

1976-1986 - Permanent
Representative of the USSR
to the UN

1986-1990 - Ambassador
of the USSR to the People’s
Republic of China

1990-2003 - worked in Moscow at the USSR
Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Yuri Dubinin

(1930-2013)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

in diplomatic service since 1955

1955-1956 - intern at the Embassy
of the USSR in France

1956 - worked at the Section of
International Organizations of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1956-1959 - held a P-1 position at
the UNESCO Secretariat in Paris

1959-1962 - Third Secretary and
then Second Secretary of the First European Section at the USSR Ministry of
Foreign Affairs

1962-1963 - Assistant Head of the
First European Section at the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1963-1968 - First Secretary and
then Counsellor at the Embassy of the USSR
in France

1968-1971 - Deputy Head of the
First European Section at the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1971-1978 - Head of the First
European Section at the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1978-1986 - Ambassador of the USSR to Spain

1986 - Permanent Representative of
the USSR
to the UN

1986-1990 - Ambassador of the USSR to the USA

1990-1991 - Ambassador of the USSR to France

1991-1994 - Ambassador-at-Large at
the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1994-1996 - Deputy Minister of
Foreign Affairs of Russia

1996-1999 - Ambassador of Russia to
Ukraine (in rank equal to
that of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation)

1999 - left the Ministry

Alexander Belonogov

(b.1931)

in diplomatic service since 1954

1954-1962 - Assistant, Senior
Assistant, Attaché at the Legal and Treaty Section of the USSR Ministry of
Foreign Affairs

1959-1962 - Third Secretary and then
Second Secretary at the Section of International Economic Organizations of the
USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1962-1967 - Third Secretary, Second
Secretary and then First Secretary at the Embassy of the USSR in Great Britain

1967-1978 - Counsellor, Chief
Counsellor, Head Counsellor at the Foreign Policy Planning Office of the USSR
Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1978-1979 - Head of the African and
Middle Eastern Section of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1979-1984 - Deputy Head and then
Head of the USA
Section at the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1984-1986 - Ambassador of the USSR to the ArabRepublic of Egypt

1986-1990 - Permanent Representative
of the USSR to the UN and USSR
Representative to the UN Security Council

1990-1992 - Deputy Minister of
Foreign Affairs of the USSR

1992-1998 - Ambassador of Russia to Canada

1998 - left the Ministry

Yuli Vorontsov

(1929-2007)

in diplomatic service since 1952

1952-1954 - Expert, Chief Expert and then Attaché of the Second European
Section at the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1954-1958 - Attaché and then Third Secretary at the Permanent Mission of
the USSR
to the UN

1958-1963 - Second Secretary, First Secretary and then Counsellor at the
Section of International Organizations of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1963-1965 - Counsellor at the Permanent Mission
of the USSR
to the UN

1965-1966 - Deputy Head of the Section of International Organizations at
the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1966-1977 - Counsellor and then Minister-Counsellor at the Embassy of
the USSR to the USA

1977 - Deputy Head of the Foreign Policy Planning Office of the USSR
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, member of the Ministry Board

1977-1983 - Ambassador of the USSR
to India

1983-1986 - Ambassador of the USSR
to France

1986-1989 - First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, starting 1988 shared the office of
Ambassador of the USSR to Afghanistan

1990-1994 - Permanent Representative of the USSR to the UN

1994-1998 - Ambassador of Russia
to the USA

since 1999 - Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for CIS, since 2000
sharing the posto of the Secretary-General's High-level Coordinator for
compliance by Iraq with its
obligations regarding the repatriation or return of all Kuwaiti and third
country nationals or their remains, as well as the return of all Kuwaiti
property, including archives seized by Iraq

Sergey Lavrov

(b.1950)

1972 - graduated from the USSR
Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Moscow State Institute of International
Relations. Has command of English, French and Sinhalese.

Started his career in 1972 at the
Soviet Embassy in Sri Lanka.

1976-1981 - worked in the Department
of International Organizations of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

1981-1988 - First Secretary,
Counselor and Senior Counselor in the Permanent Representation of the USSR
at the UN.

1988-1990 - Deputy Head of the
Department of International Economic Relations of the Russian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs.

1990-1992 - Director of the Foreign
Ministry's Department of International Organizations and Global Problems.